Mrs. PAINE. Junior?
Mr. REDLICH. Just above the word "Hosty" appears in parentheses "RI
1-1121," and underneath "James P. Hosty" appears "MU 8605." Underneath
that is "1114 Commerce Street Dallas." I would just like to correct
upon the record that the phone number originally read is "RI-11211."
Mrs. PAINE. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. What is that phone number?
Mrs. PAINE. That phone number I recognize from my own use of it is to
the FBI in Dallas, my use since the assassination.
Mr. JENNER. And the series of numbers rather than phone numbers, series
of numbers "MU 8605."
Mrs. PAINE. Is not known to me.
Mr. JENNER. What is the system of license plate numbering and lettering
employed in Texas?
Mrs. PAINE. I am not acquainted with any particular system. They use
both letters and numbers.
Mr. JENNER. I call your attention in connection with this entry that
it is dated November 1, 1963, and there does appear in it the license
number.
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Your recollection is firm that you didn't furnish it?
Mrs. PAINE. May I point out also that he must have put this down after
November 1st, or at least that evening. He could not have written it
down with----
Mr. JENNER. It had to be after the fact as you furnished him the name.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And the agent's address.
Mrs. PAINE. I would think he could as well have added--you don't want
my thinking--this number.
Mr. JENNER. The reason I call that to your attention, Mrs. Paine, it
still does not stimulate your recollection.
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Any differently than before. You did not furnish the
license number.
Mrs. PAINE. I certainly did not. To the best of my recollection I did
not put down the address either.
Mr. JENNER. Now during the course of that interview of November 5th,
did you not say to Agent Hosty that Lee had visited at your home
November 2 and 3?
Mrs. PAINE. It is entirely possible, likely.
Mr. JENNER. And in this connection I am at liberty to report to you
that Agent Hosty's report is that you did advise him that Oswald had
visited at your home on November 2 and November 3. Does that serve to
refresh your recollection that you did so advise him?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall that.
Mr. JENNER. Now did you express an opinion to Agent Hosty that Oswald
was "an illogical person?"
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, I did, in answer to his question was this a mental
problem, as I have just described to you.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; that is all right. And did you also say to Agent Hosty
that Oswald himself had "Admitted being a Trotskyite Communist."
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, I doubt seriously I said Trotskyite Communist. I would
think Leninist Communist, but I am not certain.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember making a remark of similar import?
Mrs. PAINE. Reference to Trotsky surprises me. I have come since the
assassination to wonder if he had Trotskyite views. I have become
interested in what such views are since the assassination.
Mr. JENNER. To the best of your recollection you don't recall making
that comment?
Mrs. PAINE. I wouldn't think that I had the knowledge by which to make
such a statement even.
Mr. JENNER. Now after this rationalization you have made, Mrs. Paine,
it is your recollection that you did not make such a comment?
Mrs. PAINE. I can't recall. What was the second item that I told Hosty
he had been out on the second and third? I am just trying to clarify
here.
Mr. JENNER. You had told him that Lee Oswald had been at your home
November 2 and 3, that you told him that Lee Oswald was an illogical
person?
Mrs. PAINE. That is it.
Mr. JENNER. And third, that you told him that Oswald had admitted being
a Trotskyite Communist.
Mrs. PAINE. I may have said that. I don't recall.
Mr. JENNER. You may have said the latter.
Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall, that is right.
Mr. JENNER. It is possible that you did say it?
Mrs. PAINE. It is possible. I am surprised, however, by the word at
that point.
Mr. JENNER. Now do you recall a telephone interview or call by Agent
Hosty on the 27th of January 1964? Perhaps I had better put it this
way to you. Do you recall subsequent telephone calls after the
assassination that you received from Agent Hosty, that you did receive
such telephone calls?
Mrs. PAINE. I did, and visits also, at the house.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall he called you on the 27th of January 1964 and
that he inquired whether you had given Lee Oswald the license number of
his automobile when he had been at your home? You stated that you had
not.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
I would have thought that was a face to face interview but I don't
recall.
Mr. JENNER. But you also told Agent Hosty on that occasion, "However,
this license number could have easily been observed by Marina Oswald
since her bedroom is located only a short distance from the street
where this car would have been parked."